Agent skill · nousresearch
rss-feeds
Read RSS, Atom, JSON feeds; discover feeds behind a page.
What it needs
About 3k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
RSS Feeds Skill Reads any RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0/RDF, Atom, or JSON Feed URL into a clean, date-sorted list of entries, and discovers the feed behind an ordinary page URL (<link rel="alternate"> or the usual /feed, /rss.xml, /atom.xml paths). Standard library only, nothing to install. It does not fetch full article bodies — pass an entry's link to webextract for that. When to Use "What's new on <blog/site>", "latest releases of <GitHub repo>", "recent posts in <subreddit>", "read this feed", "does this site have an RSS feed". Building a recurring digest with cronjobmanage (feeds are cheaper and more stable than scraping the HTML front page every run). For a persistent read/unread database across many feeds install the optional blogwatcher skill; this skill is the zero-install read. Anything where a structured list of title / link / date / author / summary beats a rendered page: podcasts, changelogs, YouTube channels, newsrooms, forum categories. Prerequisites None. Python 3.10+, network access to the feed host. How to Run Run through terminal with the skill-relative script path: Quick Reference Source Feed URL pattern --- --- GitHub releases / commits / tags https://github.com/OWNER/REPO/releases.atom, …/commits/BRANCH.atom, …/tags.atom Subreddit / Reddit search https://www.reddit.com/r/NAME/.rss, https://www.reddit.com/search.rss?q=… (1 req/min anon; see reddit-reading) YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channelid=UC… Hacker News https://hnrss.org/frontpage, https://hnrss.org/newest?q=TERM arXiv category https://rss.arxiv.org/rss/cs.CL Substack / Medium / WordPress / Ghost SITE/feed, medium.com/feed/@user, SITE/rss/ Podcasts the show's RSS URL from its hosting page (discover finds it) Output fields per entry: title, link, published (UTC ISO 8601), author, summary (HTML stripped, ≤ 2000 chars). Entries are sorted newest-first. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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